Chicago has strong handgun laws but borders Indiana, which has basically none. Chicago also has a lower murder rate than many U.S. cities – 5 times less than New Orleans and more than half the rates in St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, and Newark.

One of the other commenters pointed out that this would mean New Orleans has had 2500 murders in 2012. In fact, they have had 187.

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:52:26 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=235252#comment-2233061He says that as if the mainstream media wasn’t a liberal Democrat mouthpiece bent on manipulating public opinion to further their goals.
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